Different Ways to Eat Spaghetti

WALT use 'I think that means' to understand the ideas in the text.

This week for reading our reading group read a story called The Best way to eat Spaghetti. It's about a boy called Max that was having trouble with eating his spaghetti, that's when his family started to butt in and was trying to show Max different ways to eat spaghetti. Max's dad preferred to use a fork and spin and twirl the spaghetti and eat it. His Mother preferred to cut it in pieces and eat it. But Max's brother showed him a proper way to eat spaghetti and he bent his head down on top of the bowl and slurped all the spaghetti up. Then his little sister was frustrated and used her hands to eat the spaghetti up. Max was also frustrated and told them all to stop, then he took his bowl of spaghetti to the kitchen and ate his spaghetti all by himself.

Also for this week, we had to do five activities according to the story and one of them that I chose to post on my blog is a poem about eating spaghetti. It took me a little while to think of a poem but I managed to look for some ideas and finally made one.

Poem about eating Spaghetti

Once you eat Spaghetti,

Gives you more energy,

It’ll splish, splash and splosh

Oops-

Now my food is squashed

Diary Entry

WALT use descriptive language 

This week for writing, we read a book called 'The ANZAC Violin'. It's about a guy called Alexander Aitken who brought his violin to war. During war he would sometimes play his violin to his comrades and would keep it safe when it was time to go. He was a New Zealander who fought for America in war. In the story he also wrote a diary entry about his in life in war. When Alexander got wounded in war, he left and never came back but he started to make a diary of his own telling others what he came through in war. The that violin he owned was taken by a school after he died in 3 November 1967. 

On Monday after we read the story, we started thinking about making a diary entry of our own but on Alexander's point of view. The part my diary entry is about is when Alexander is in war trying to help his comrades. Before we could start writing, we had to plan it out first and make a attribute chart and add words that we could add into our diary. In our attribute chart we had to put what we could see, hear, location, movement and temperature. Using this we could start writing a little bit about our diary entry.

What I enjoyed was writing a diary entry about war. What I found difficult was trying to think of a way to start and end my diary entry.

Here is a paragraph of my diary entry:

As I attentively took my wounded leg out of a misty deep hole, I thought for a moment and looked back at it. I can clearly hear the deadly screams of my comrades seeking for help. I was feeling too agitated trying to move away from the powerful gunshots passing by and the roaring engines as they roughly crash into each other under the scorching sun. I stood my back really straight to help myself gain more energy, but right at that moment the deadly screams suddenly faded away as a colossal bomb landed in the middle of the hole making an enormous thud sound.

I couldn’t take it anymore, my wound was getting much worse as the pain couldn’t handle it. I tried to move away from the fire that the bomb caused, but my eyesight was too blurry and my ears started to ring so badly that it was threatening me. I pause for a moment. 

Suddenly, I unclearly saw a man starting to walk smoothly upon me, giving me a hand. But the only thing that I could remember right at that moment, before I could fall onto the sun baked grass that was burning my leg so dreadfully was. I felt like falling into a pitch dark hole with absolutely nothing around me.

Nutrition

Last, last week, a woman came into our classroom and her name was Sophie. Sophie was there to teach us about nutrition and about the food that we need to keep our bodies healthy and strong. On the first lesson that we had with her about nutrition was about our bodies and why we need to keep them strong. On the second lesson we had with her about nutrition was about the different food groups that would keep us healthy and fit. After, we went into groups of three's or four's and we had to try to figure out which food goes into a food group. At the end she also told us about the different drinks and how many sugars that they have in them.

On our third lesson we got to go to the supermarket and went into groups again and checked the different foods that they have there and if some of them are healthy to eat or some of them are not really healthy to eat. After we earned some free new lunch boxes and got a 60 dollar voucher for free to share for everyone in the class.

Last Monday we spent our voucher on some healthy food to eat for lunch. We also got to pick which kind of food we would like as a class, and everyone got to vote which food that they would like to eat for our healthy lunch. The food that huge amount of vote was chicken with rice and fruit kebabs. The food was so delicious that there was only a few left at the end.

Also last Monday, while other people was helping to get the food ready, others was working on some work about nutrition. What we had to do was to make a DLO showing what we have learnt about nutrition and some of us worked with a buddy and some of us worked by ourselves.

Here is a slideshow showing what I have learnt:

New in the City

   WALT use 'i think that means' to understand the ideas in the text.

This week for reading, the reading group that I am into is reading a story called Lost in the City. It's about a girl called Sarah that visited a city for the first time. She was with her grandfather until she got lost. There was a huge crowd around her but she couldn't find her grandfather. So she remembered what her dad told her about going to high places to search where you are going if you are lost. It helped her and saw her grandfather talking to a police man anxiously.

One of the reading task that was on the activities that we had to do was to make a poster about visiting a city for the first time, and we could rather do it digitally or on paper, so I decided to do it digitally and made a poster on canva.     

Here is the poster I made, showing you what you could also do when visiting a city for the first time:

Island in the Sun

WALT use 'I think that means' to understand the ideas in the text.

This week for reading, the reading group that I am in is reading a story called Island in the Sun and its about an island that has lots of trees in it and when the people saw the island, they started living there. After, they started to cut the trees down and they didn't care how much trees they were cutting down because there were lots more. They used it to make houses, gardens and lots more. Then after few years later, there were no more trees left and a ship sailed to the island and left.

One of the reading activities that I have to do is to draw a map of the island showing where the action happened. So I drew it on my computer and I kind a work and I've put my best in it so I hope you like it.

Here is the map of the island that I drew:

First Time Going to Tech

It was my first time going to Tech and it was the same for some of us. Some of us from last year went to tech too with the other Year 8s from last year, but this year, the Year 6s from last year gets to go to tech this year, including me. For tech we get to go to Hornby High School which is a high school near our school. We went on this bus that had very comfortable seats with seat belts on it, then I tried putting the seat belt on but it seems like that it was stuck so I decided not to. 

When we arrived it was raining outside so we quickly got in then sat on this staircase inside next to a door that leads to outside. Few minutes later a teacher came in to talk to us and his name was Mr Health, he was our science teacher for the day or for the rest of the term and he lead us to this laboratory with cool science stuff in it. We did a test and tried this electric magnet thing, and it was fun.

After we went to a workshop and we got to choose if we could make an ID Tag or something to put on your bags or car keys or something like that. Then we did a whole tutorial to do it and everyone finish in time.

What I enjoyed was making an ID tag and doing a test in the science lab.

What I found hard was cutting my ID tag the right shape.

What I would differently is to make it easier and just do a particular shape like a square or something like that to make it easier.

Biscuits for the Teacher

WALT Use the "deep five" to unpack the text.

This start of the year was really awesome and it was fantastic. This week, the second week of Term one, for reading we have been doing kind a like the same thing we did last year but a little different. This year with Ms Wilton, we made a slideshow that we will add into every week and that is where we will put our reading activities. Also there are four reading groups and they are named the four different planets in space, there is Mars, Saturn, Mercury and Venus and I am in Mercury.

We got to choose five of the activities we had to do in my reading group, so one of the activity that I choose to do was to make a poster about how to make Ms Thomas happy and the Biscuits for the Teacher is about this boy called Stephen and Stephen's teacher, Ms Thomas is leaving to another school and Stephen really like his teacher so he decided to give her a special gift before she leaves so he decided to make biscuits for her.